#daiakuron

A long time ago, in the beginning of the tranquility of the universe, a giant roamed the cosmos. Daiakuron. He represented the thin balance between chaos and order. His existence was a lonely one, no life existed only scattered space rocks that had slowly built over the expanse of time. That is until he made two children from his very life essence.

Primus a being representing light and peace, tasked with interacting with the building of the cosmos to sustain life. Meanwhile, he created a being of darkness and destruction, Unicron, his task was to eat dead worlds so that the cosmos would be able to recycle. However, he did not consider that the brothers would eventually hate each other for their roles, over time they fought bitterly against each other instead of working together. With no other choice Daiakuron created another life, Gaea she was not as big as her brothers only half their size, she became known as the mediator, and she brought delicate peace to the brothers allowing the balance to continue.

For her service, Daiakuron created a being not linked to his spark, a bot named Atlas to be Gaea's love. The two worked tirelessly together to keep the peace between Unicron and Primus.

Jealousy burned inside Unicron however, and he created a wife of his own, Gozer. Only for it to end terribly as she tried to usurp Unicron after years of being together. One of the few times they worked together Primus and Unicron defeated her.

In time Daiakuron created another bot Weirrall, a scrapper similar to Unicron yet using the space rocks as his junk, coating himself in it. Then Daiakuron created four bots to help lead the eventual life of the universe, Adaptus, Epistemus, Mortilus, and Solomus.

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However, tragedy struck the universe again, and in anger, Unicron struck Gaea down. She eventually became a half-sphere. In grief Atlas joined his wife coming together to make a full sphere, forever circling the cosmos together. Shunned by the rest of his siblings, Unicron's anger grew untamed and his hunger for worlds only grew stronger.

Their father, having long since disappeared, left Primus in charge. Primus created thirteen bots to help in the fight against Unicron. Prima, Vector Prime, Alpha Trion, Solus Prime, Micronus Prime, Alchemist Prime, Nexus Prime, Onyx Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Quintus Prime, Liege Maximo, Megatronus Prime, and The Thirteenth who later willingly became unnamed.

Unicron followed suit, creating bots of his own as well based upon visions he assumed ensured his glory. Logos Prime, Septimus Prime, and Nemesis Prime, who served as his heralds for finding worlds to eat.

Eventually, Unicron was defeated, using the last of his strength Primus trapped his brother in a ball shape after seeing what happened with Gaea. Sorrowed at the sight Primus, remembered the early days, soon Primus joined Unicron at his indefinite prison, turning into a metal sphere. The two brothers eventually drifted into a reluctant slumber, Unicron now trapped in the form slowly etched out his body and returned to his duties as a world eater, while Primus etched out his body for life. Making each of his primes give an aspect of their nature to these new inhabitants.

Dear Family Friend,

Dear Martian Invader,

In one reality, the living planet Daiakuron created the mighty Ares, who transformed into the planet Mars, instead of Atlas. But Ares and her planetary alternate mode were not the dead, lifeless planet that you might be familiar with: her active core powered her many supervolcanoes, and as they pumped carbon dioxide and other life-giving minerals into the atmosphere the influx of heat and chemicals paved the way for the development of organic life. Belts of chemosynthetic “trees” huddled for warmth around towering volcanoes; herds of banths and malagors migrate across the savannahs and floodplains as they follow the freezing and thawing patterns of her rivers and oceans.

Dear Enoch Enthusiast,

In a reality close to the stream the Transtech have identified as Primax 514.3 Gamma, Metatron was a prior Decepticon leader who found himself usurped and deposed by the more ambitious Megatron during Cybertron’s Golden Age—the “Age of Miracles”. The “Warrior of Light” Metatron was a wise, honorable, and cultured Decepticon leader, steeped in mysticism and lacking the raw bloodlust of his successor, who won support among the Decepticons by claiming to be the reincarnation of Metatron. Perhaps, in a better world, Metatron could have become a worthy Autobot, if not for his natural arrogance.

At any rate, once he had been banished from Cybertron, Metatron began a tour of the galaxy and spent millions of years searching for any signs of Daiakuron or the living planets their progenitor had supposedly left behind. Eventually, this led him to Earth, where he became intrigued by the clear signs of repeated Cybertronian incursions over the millennia. As he investigated the land that would one day become the Middle East, he also became aware of darker forces at work on this world, including the dread god Golobulus, entombed in a glacier since the last Ice Age destroyed the ancient Co-Buruh-Lah civilization—and reasoned that if he harnessed the power of this dread being, then he could return to Cybertron and strike down his upstart successor. 

However, in his haste, Metatron had severely underestimated the resources and ingenuity of the region’s native humans, including one of several secret societies well aware of the infrequent “angels” who hailed from a metal world from beyond the sky. Led by Enoch, this alliance confronted Metatron just beyond a natural glacier that guarded the secret entrance to an ancient, overgrown garden that had once been a Co-Buruh-Lah colony—and although the human warband was eventually able to fell the aged warlord with slings, boulders, and a series of clever booby traps, Enoch, who delivered the killing blow, was himself badly wounded in the final confrontation. His followers saved his life by directly integrating his body into the metal shell of his fallen foe, a crude forerunner of the modern Headmaster process, and in this form the combined Enoch/Metatron entity wielded his fiery energo-sword and became the stalwart guardian of the entrance to this lost paradise, protecting it from humans who would seek to harness the strange biotech within... and protecting the world above from the forgotten monsters in the garden.